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Show filen, filarhines Chew Up Wilkrd Countryside for Reservoir dike Men, machinery and a vanquished countryside area. This summarizes the story unfolding west of Willard for the past two weeks. Bulldozers and other heavy have equipment gouged into fields, pastures and neglected patches, matted with vegetation, churning the dirt into heaping mounds and tearing miniature canyons for drainage: It is a dramatic change for an area laying relatively silent and unnoticed through the years. The sounds of nature and farmers tilling the soil have been replaced by the belching roar of And familiar Diesel motors. landmarks have been reduced to memory. this To the project engineer, mile-lonstretch of land lying immediately west of the Union Pacific railroad tracks represents one thing- - a barrow area, a prime source for fill material. Such is the setting for the second major phase of construction on Willard reservoir. s A force of men and a million dollars worth of machinthere the first ery converged of this month to tackle the $1,101,140 project. It will be the Los lob of Hafler and Smith, firm, to Angeles construction mile segwiden a dike ment of the preliminary from 55 to 400 feet. A series of drainage ditches to be dug are also included in the contract. Project Engineer R. R. Smith has predicted, with more hopes than conviction, that work will wind up by the years end. In all FRESH WATER CARRIER A large dirt carrier, one of several, speeds along the dike probability, his prognostication sketching across Willard bay with a dusty deposit of fill material. Each load seems will be short by several months. insignificant but hundreds of such loads each day are making the dike wider and wider. Meanwhile, fleet of huge dirt carriers scurry back and' forth from the barrow area to the NEWS 5 dike, loading and dumping many ons of fill material with every crip. The process is a monotoBrigham City, Utah nous one at best. Each dusty conWednesday, July 16, 1958 tribution seems to make little difference in the angled ribbon of dirt which has isolated the east portion of Willard bay from the Great Salt Lake. As the work goes on, the future reservoir bottom is baking hard in the summer sun. The dike and a network of drainage canals have formed a choke hold 'GOOD TIME the area, intercepting spring FOR A NEW and runoff waters as well as the KODAK CAMERA salty water of the lake. This is in keeping with Bureau of Reclamation plans. Fill dirt for final phase construction will be scooped up from the bay bottom. When completed in 1962 or there abouts, the dike will be a gigantic 550 feet wide and 36 feet high, confining fresh water channel from the Weber river, some 10 miles away. As a storage area, the huge lake will hold a maximum of 215,000 acre feet of water, the primary purpose of KODAK which will be to irrigate prop erty in Weber county. It is the CAMERA largest project in the Weber Basin conservancy program and is New low price for a genexpected to cost a total of $7,000, earth-movin- g LOCALLY TO THB National Association for Mental Health THIS WEEK'S 3 TOP g Box Elder , . at BEEHIVE RECORD BAR HARD HEADED WOMAN By Elvis Presley REBEL RAUSER By Duane Eddy POOR LITTLE FOOL By Rickey Nelson PATRICIA iBy Perez Prado WHEN by Kalin Twins BEEHIVE BORROW AREA This is part of the mile-lon-g area west of the Union Pacific tracks in Willard where thousands of tone of fill dirt are being obtained. Residents of the town find the erstwhile farm and pasture land hardly recognizable. COAL & APPLIANCE 68 N. Main Phone One i man-mad- uine Kodak miniature! miniature-camer- DRAINAGE CANAL This gaping canal, approximately 20 feet deep, slices through the borrow area to capture water which formerly ran into the portion of Willard bay now being isolated for a fresh-watreservoir. styling Superb e in a . . . performance camera priced just a step above a snapshot camera, f3.9 lens, flash shutter, e exposure-valuloading, settings. It's the simplest, surest,' most economical, fine miniature Kodak has ever built) ultra-eas- Camera a ... color-slid- er Flash holder $26.75 $7.50 COMPTONS ART & MUSIC CO. 102 So. Main Ph. 5-- Stranded Mountains, Too? y J My wife and I were sight-se- e Have you heard about the rich mg in New York. On one of Texan who arrived at a hotel in our trips, the subway shuttle Miami Beach followed by sever- from Times Square to Grand al bellboys carrying skis, tobog Central Station was packed and gans, sleds, etc. Following them came several brace of. Alaskan huskies Why, sir' exclaimed the desk' clerk, aghast. "This is Florida Theres no snow here! "I know, I know boomed the Texan Its coming along with the rest of my luggage. e 000. , The impact of such a major undertaking on the community of Willard and its residents has been considerable. The muddled confusion connected with appraisals and condemnation proceedings is quite apart from the normal routine of farming. To get what they described as a fair price for their land, Willard landowners went to court. First the district court and now a federal court in Salt Lake City, The outcome of the majority of these cases is yet to be written. since we had plenty of time, we stepped back to await a less crowded train "When will the next tram be (in' I asked the guard. Why didnt you take the one Dont Call that just left? he asked reUNDERHILL, Vt. (UPI) The proachfully. There wont be an- Underhill-Jericho fire departother one for three minutes! ment asked area residents to wait at least 15 minutes after 7 hearing an alarm before calling the station for the location of the fire. Fire Chief Maitland Root said the calls were tying up the line and resulted in a delay in rounding up the volunteer "Ml firefighters. BEAR RIVER CITY REPORTS WILL BE Guests Visiting in Behr River City By Mrs. Ernest Huggins Major and Mrs. Warren ger and daughters, Linda Con- and Hialeah, Florida, are spending several days visiting Mrs. Congers brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Christensen. Sunday afternoon, a family party was held at Box Elder County Park in their honor. Mr. and Mrs. Hyrum Christensen, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Christensen and children of Brigham City; Mr. and Mrs. Chester Christensen and family of Bear River City and the guests of honor enjoyed the affair. Mrs. Georgia ' A. Jeppeson of Holley, Ore., visited her brother and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Carl (Duffy) Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Johnsen attended the Campbell family reunion at Afton, Wyo. Mr.' and Mrs. Milton Bywater and Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Clark of Thatcher, spent the holiday weekend at Mirror Lake. ' They also visited Mr. and Mrs. Reg Burt at their summer ranch. Mrs. Vesta Jensen was hostess to a lovely party at the Idle Isle in Brigham City, honoring Mrs. Victoria Johnsen and Mrs. Gladys Thorsen on their birthdays. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Staples and Mr. and Mrs Ralph Bateman and two children of Ogden, and Mrs. Irma Rawlins and son of Reno, Nev., were holiday visitors at the Burton Anderson home. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Olsen of Brigham City visited for a while Saturday with the Ernest Huggins. They were returning from spending July 4 at Yost visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thompson. They also visited in Grouse Creek with Bishop and Mrs. Hughie Thompson. Fern and Ellis Arbon are very Kay of Reliable CLEANERS REEVES Family Gathering Honors Florida happy to have their son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Vanyle Arbon of El Paso, Texas, visiting them. Vanyle is stationed at Fort Bliss and will return to his base at the end of his furlough but his wife will remain here and visit for the summer. Little Miss Lori Iverson of Layton spent the past week with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Iverson. Gwendolyn Wooley of Las Vegas, Nev., was a house guest of Mrs. Victoria C. Johnsen last week. These two ladies were former missionary companions in the California mission. Miss Wooley is a teacher in Las Vegas and she was on her way to Canada for a vacation. 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